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Joe Lieberman, Worst Person In History Of Universe, Part Nine Million

That sure was a friendly move of Joe Lieberman yesterday, on dance-y silver monster David Gregory’s Meet The Press, to go back on his pledge to support the Medicare buy-in proposal without telling the Senate leadership first, so as to destroy happiness once and for all. It’s especially jarring since a mere THREE MONTHS AGO he supported — and this is in a Connecticut newspaper, in print! — a goddamn freaking Medicare buy-in as an alternative to a public option. YOU KNOW THE EXACT THING. Of course why wouldn’t he bother moving the goalpost further and further into universal self-immolation & total implosion when nobody punishes him for anything? He just loves death, so much.

Here is an actual newspaper excerpt from September 8, 2009, based on an interview with Lieberman. (Ace catch, TPM!):

As to how 47 million uninsured will afford coverage, Lieberman said only 12 million don’t have insurance because they cannot afford it.

By allowing citizens who are not eligible for Medicare or Medicaid to buy in for a rate below the private market, the government can extend coverage to more of those who are currently uninsured, he said.

To arrive at his position, Lieberman said he reached out to “every conceivable group” in the state, including residents, providers, doctors and hospitals.

Boom. Just… boom. This is a “Joe Lieberman Boom Sandwich of Lies.” It tastes like blood and lava.

So, how will a FURIOUS Harry Reid and the White House respond to this fellow? Will they maybe try to exert some leverage, by threatening to take away his chairmanships or kidnap his pet gargoyle, Booger-eyes?

The White House is encouraging Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to cut a deal with Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and eliminate the proposed Medicare expansion in the health reform bill, according to an official close to the negotiations.

But Reid is described as so frustrated with Lieberman that he is not ready to sacrifice a key element of the health care bill, and first wants to see the Congressional Budget Office cost analysis of the Medicare buy-in. The analysis is expected early this week.

“There is a weariness and a lot of frustration that one person is holding up the will of 59 others,” the official said. “There is still too much anger and confusion at one particular senator’s reversal.”

Well it is still DESPITE WHAT EVERYONE SAYS a good bill so maybe it’s not a terrible idea to weed out this one small recent inclusion. But also, no, because Joe will just find something else to pretend to not like and declare that his new litmus test. Then, a few hours later, Ben “Wario” Nelson will release a statement saying, “Uhhh yeah, what Joe said, and also, abortion, no abortions for ladies,” while Mary Landrieu quietly steals another few hundred million in pork and liberals are told to eat sacks of french-fried cajun-seasoned dicks yet again, because they hate Christmas and have a war against it.

Jim Newell is Wonkette's beloved Capitol Hill Typing Demon. He joined Wonkette.com in 2007, left for some other dumb job in 2010, and proudly returned in 2012 as our "Senior Editor at Large." He lives in Washington and also writes for things such as The Guardian, the Manchester paper of liberals.

Lives of the unborn > lives of people without health insurance who are definitely indisputably alive, like there isn’t even a debate over whether they are alive or not, and even if there were a debate over whether these people were alive or not, it would not be so unknowable that people would just agree to disagree and move on with helpful discussion of how to help people

user-of-owls

You know what would be very satisfying? If we could wait for a day with gale force winds and then bundle this monster into a trebuchet and shoot him into the blades of a siemens turbine. Yes, the soil where his pureed remains fall would remain toxic unto the seventh generation, but small price to pay.

Dorje Chenpo

Time to get rid of the senate. Why should uncivilized unpopulated states get the two senators, the same as we get for millions of people in California? And why should one slimy, insurance company fellating scumbag from Connecticut be able to deny health care to the nation, just because of the ridiculous supermajority needed to get anything done?

Who’s with me?

Gopherit

Can you guys just rename this website “Fuck Joe Lieberman” until he goes away forever?

user-of-owls

[re=477665]Buzz Feedback[/re]: Better yet, a run in with the face-pully-offy monkey.

Autochthon

What’s up w/ the voters of CT allowing this a**hole to continue to hold office???

Way Cool Larry

Little did we know “Joe-mentum” was a freight train of death and destruction.

Whiskeybaby

He is basically an evil version of Hitler.

Way Cool Larry

[re=477672]Gopherit[/re]: second it

Barrelhse

Joe is a frothing mix, with his picture right there alongside the definition. Pig-fucker, also.

JMP

Thanks, Connecticut, for reelecting this guy after he demanded his do-over second election! Assholes; he had already proven himself to be a cretin and a traitor, what did you expect.

But hey, he “helped” by making the deal in 2006 to preserve the right to filibuster! And that’s turned out so well for the Democrats, hasn’t it?

Does Joe the Schmuck’s Senate medical package cover his lip gloss and knee pad expenses when big pharma and big med insurance visit the good Senator?

Dave J.

The moral of the last 10 years is that if a Democrat loses the presidential election, the VP candidate will turn out to be a raging asshole, and should be immediately disowned by anyone with half a brain. I mean, John Edwards and Joe Lieberman? Probably the two worst people ever.

SayItWithWookies

Ha ha, Reid et. al. made the mistake of assuming that just because Lieberman proposes an idea that he’ll support it once it comes up for a vote — where in reality he proposes it because it’s not on the table, and it gives certain rubes (i.e. pansyweight Nevada senators) the impression that it could be a viable alternative.
Remember those magic beans that you traded the cow for, Senator? Same deal. You’ll figure it out eventually. Maybe.
Also, one more word: Reconciliation.

Wugou

Why is it that a comical old Italian billionaire/PM gets hit in the face with a statuette but not a terrible turd monster sourpuss like Joe Lieberdouche? Is there no God?

V572625694

Imagine if Gore had been allowed to be inaugurated into the presidency he won. We’d have had this jerkwad as veep for 8 years, with his whiny voice and unctuous self-importance. But we got that anyway! Goddamnit, the system’s broken.

chascates

IT WOULD BE A SHAME IF ANY ISLAMIST SYMPATHIZERS IN THE UNITED STATES KIDNAPPED JOE LIEBERMAN AND TORTURED HIM!

bureaucrap

[re=477666]memzilla[/re]: That’s why his next proposal is going to be “Let’s sell the Entire Medicare program to AFLAC, for one dollar, because everyone loves those Gilbert Gottfried voice-overs.”

Hooray For Anything

My brother occasionally sees Joe in synagouge and I sent him an email earlier this morning that if he sees Joe again, to beat the ever lasting shit out of him and then maybe throw him into some of the poorer sections of DC where he can try to explain to those folks why he’s against medicare expansion.

JMP

[re=477671]Dorje Chenpo[/re]: But without the American House of Lords, how would our betters make sure the rabble don’t gain too much power and run the government for the good of all, instead of just the deserving few?

Crank Tango

someone needs to take a statue of some famous connecticut building and smash his face in, berlusconi-style. Not that I am advocating violence; it would just be great for connecticut tourism.

Gorillionaire

Hey, it’s just Politico. They might have just quoted every third word from the Reid camp and then turned it around sideways until it said that.

Sharkey

We can do all of our death-shopping at Traitor Joe’s.

Texan Bulldoggette

Joe is so going to be Keithy’s Worst Person in the Wooooorld! tonight. I think he’s the biggest dick in the world & I don’t mean that in the way men like.

DeLand DeLakes

How I would love to inflate those labial-jowls with a mixture of Botox and white phosphorus…

Gopherit

[re=477693]bureaucrap[/re]: Now the GOP has a new ad buy for the radio…..with Steele saying, yes, indeed, they are stonewalling an “entitlement program”….you know, like medicare. Take that and stick it to lieberman’s sorry hide like so much burning pitch. Burn, baby, burn.

I do not want to hear this kind of thing ever again. Never ever. In a better world:
“The White House is encouraging Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to cut Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.).”

Also, when I’m looking for Siemens, I turn to craigslist.

Oldskool

The term “rat bastard” comes to mind.

queeraselvis v 2.0

TPM couldn’t have found a more apropos pic of this petulant, constipated goat-fucker.

Rush

Please don’t allow this to sway your views on Chanukah.

(ps, as soon as Joe chose to become an “Independent”, I knew, as a CT resident, that is was all about “him”).

chascates

Time for the 51-vote reconciliation process. Screw Lieberman & Nelson.

freakishlystrong

Joe the pantload.

TGY

Do you know who else’s first name was also Joe?

chascates

As Steve Benen points out:One thing to keep an eye on. Lieberman has made some specific demands, which he insists have to be met. But what’s to stop Lieberman from making new demands if the White House and Senate leaders give him what he wants now? It’s not like he’s negotiating in good faith, and it’s not like Lieberman’s word has value. The White House wants Reid to cut the deal, assuming that it would end the standoff. But what if Lieberman discovers new concerns and takes the bill hostage all over again?

Aquannissiwamissoo

What Joe means is that all of this health care stuff is interfering with his important Committee work to find out who fucked up after Katrina.

Cape Clod

I think it’s time to send the Inglourious Basterd squad after Lieberman, especially the big, bat-weilding one.

Davidwatts

this post is what wonkette is all about. thank you, forever.

Fuck Toad

“We don’t need to keep adding on to the back of this horse until the horse breaks down and we get nothing done,” Lieberman said.

Joe Lieberman is an expert on how much you can “add on” to the “back” of a horse, because he had to call in a favor with John McCain to bury all those fucked-out bays at one of his ranches.

Gopherit

It’s beginning to occur to me that the current political scene looks more and more like the theatrics of professional wrestling, and we’re being played like the NASCAR crowd. I hate being treated like an idiot, but I’d also really like someone to give Joe a piledriver to his diaphragm.

jetjaguar

this guy must get sooooo much money, you guys

Come here a minute

There must be some factual error — Joe is with us on everything but the war.

user-of-owls

[re=477716]TGY[/re]: Do you know who else’s first name was also Joe?

Jesus’ dad?

chascates

[re=477734]Come here a minute[/re]: He was on board with getting out of Iraq until he was re-elected.

I need some shopping advice.
What kind of hand sized statue best represents an uninsured American?

Jim89048

[re=477677]Whiskeybaby[/re]: Uber-Godwin in one step, ftw!

WadISay

[re=477747]nbawriter[/re]: When he arrives in hell, I would also like him fed pork chops, bacon, mollusks, shrimp and Jimmie Dean pork sausages.

queeraselvis v 2.0

[re=477748]Advocatus_Diaboli[/re]: PS – please return the gavel asap but remember to wipe off the handle first, as it’s been up your ass all this time.

/fixed

Come here a minute

[re=477757]Native of SL UT[/re]: Milan-Cathedral-shaped, and HEAVY.

Gopherit

[re=477757]Native of SL UT[/re]: Trucknutz?

loquaciousmusic

I called Lieberman’s office earlier today and spoke with a very nice assistant. I told her that I was very disappointed in some of the statements that Sen. Lieberman had made regarding the expansion of Medicare coverage and I hoped that he would reconsider. I also told her that, as one of the senators elected to represent Connecticut, I hoped he would acknowledge that the majority of the state supports health care reform.

That was much more eloquent than the script I had originally written, which was, “I would like Sen. Lieberman to eat a great big, fat gigantic bag of dicks.”

bigfatpantload

Thanks CT voters!!!

snideinplainsight

Is it too early for nominations for The Beast’s Worst People of 2009?

Aquannissiwamissoo

No one seeks petty vengeance more than a worthless liar exposed.

HedonismBot

What an evil, ugly, wicked litte, wrinkly, ass-faced troll goblin.
Thank you, Wonkette, for providing the one place on the web where we are free to hate on this little slimeball to our hearts’ content. It’s a vicarious little joy, fleeting and fragile – much more vicarious than, say, kicking him in his wrinkly, smug stupid face – but I’ll take what I can get in this economy.
And I wish Obama would stop trying to appeal to the better angels of people who obviously don’t have any, like Lieberman and insurance and banking execs. For all his unforgivable flaws, at least Bush and his cronies knew how to twist arms and crack skulls in the service of getting what they wanted. If I have to read one more headline about Obama begging and pleading soulless corporate monsters to act like responsible human beings, I will seriously consider staying home in Novembers 2010 and 2012.

Elephants Gerald

[re=477671]Dorje Chenpo[/re]: Me.

Jim89048

In other news, I got my official War on Christmas card from Barry and Michelle in the mail today. “Seasons Greeting”, it says. Not even the obligatory “Happy Holidays”! I can’t believe I voted for this Kenyan.

thesheriffisnear

[re=477762]WadISay[/re]: Ah yes, bottom feeders for a bottom feeder.

thesheriffisnear

[re=477762]WadISay[/re]: …and swine for a swine

parenthetical

[re=477675]Way Cool Larry[/re]: Yeah, we pretty much knew.

Pompous Magnus

Technically, he hasn’t. In his interview from 2000 with the Bangor Daily News he said 55-64 year olds were the fastest growing group on uninsured.

He was talking about people aged 55-64 in the year 2000, though.

Fast forward over nine years later and the youngest of that group are now 64 years old.

They’re getting their Medicare next year and, thusly, a Medicare expansion is no longer needed. Q-E-motherf–king-D

Do the math with a little Joe-mentum in your brain, people.

brown_recluse

That does it. I’m taking MTP off the tivo. From now on, Sunday morning is for watching Graham Norton.

mumblyjoe

Honestly, this all makes me wish DroopyDog McMumblepants were up for re-election in 2010, intead of 2012. And not just because we’d get rid of him forever sooner, but because I would LOVE to see him somehow get primaried out of his own fakey, completely made-up party. I would also love to see what priceless, sore-loserly, drama-queen-style thing he ends up doing after he gets primaried out of his own fakey, completely made-up party. It would be comedy GOLD.

And then we’d be able to get rid of him forever.

FlownOver

And here we are in the midst of an unprecedented lightly salted poisoned rat dick shortage. How sad.

torera

I just can’t believe NO ONE has ANYthing on Joe who has been dicking around on public money for years now. WWLBJD?

Aquannissiwamissoo

[re=477912]Pompous Magnus[/re]: Well, if it was in Maine’s shittiest newspaper nine years ago, then I guess that settles it.

engulfedinflames

On three we all close our eyes and wish itching, burning hemorrhoids on the disgusting little maggot, one, two, three.

Dolmance

I literally get a headache when I think about that atrocious piece of shit. And everything that’s wrong with Democrats; every wimp like, cowardly, chickenshit, no balls, no guts, eat the cum of another man out of your wife’s vagina sack of whining, sniveling, dog like squealing submissive toilet licking wuss – was illustrated perfectly when Al Gore chose this son of a bitch to be his running mate.

And this is the problem that’s keeping Democrats from passing meaningful health reform, and why they haven’t stamped out the pestilence of Republicanism that’s been running this country off a cliff since the days of fucking Richard Nixon!!!

Goddamnit!!!

schvitzatura

[re=477699]Crank Tango[/re]: Four or five Hartford 21s, wrapped fasces-style around a central City Place 1?

thebeatgoeson

[re=477668]Fox n Fiends[/re]: Hartford is the insurance capitol of the US. Need I connect the dots ! (Damn keyboard has a faulty question mark key)

pinkocommiefag

does the bill still include protection for those of us who cannot purchase insurance because we have pre-existing conditions? because if it doesn’t it sounds like i’ll be fined (since i’m living in a state that allows insurance companies to exclude me and my pre-existing).